- It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
- England's first great industry was wool.
- The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.
- The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.
- The first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph).
- It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.
- There are over 130 species of owl.
- The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch.
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